CANADIAN PRODUCTION STUNT
LAMB’S FLEECE TO COAT IX A DAY. .
The Canadian woollen industry recently accomplished an unusual achievement when it produced a light fall overcoat in one day from the shearing of the sheep to the sewing on of the buttons. This feat resulted from a challenge by a Toronto daily paper and the coat was worn by Lieut-enant-Governor Parodeau, of Quebec, in opening the Canadian National Exhibition. Four lambs were first taken twelve miles in a touring automobile to the Slingsby Woollen. mill at Brantford, and at 5 a.m. were shorn, the wool scoured from grease and dirt and placed in the boiling dye vat, all within half an hour. The wool was then carded, rove, spun and woven into cloth, which was delivered to a Brantford tailor. The finished coat was . transported fifty miles by aeroplane. and delivered at the Exhibition grounds at 6.45 p.m. the same day.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3490, 28 October 1926, Page 14
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151CANADIAN PRODUCTION STUNT Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3490, 28 October 1926, Page 14
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